/*
 * Anything: A flexible and easy to use data structure that combines the 
 * characteristics of a list and a hashmap into one data structure.
 * 
 * Based on a paper by Peter Sommerlad and Marcel Rueedi on 
 * 'Do-it-yourself reflection' entered at EuroPLOP 1998.
 * 
 * This library was written completely from scratch and is based only 
 * in spirit on the original Java Anything implementation written by 
 * Andre Weinand/Marcel Rueedi in 1997/99 and enhanced by Stefan Tramm 
 * in 2006.
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Thomas Marti and others. All rights reserved.
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package any.incubator;

public enum ObjectHandlingStrategy { 
	OMIT_OBJECT {
	    @Override public UnknownObject getUnknownObject(Object value) {
		    return null;
	    }
    }, 
	AS_UNKNOWN_OBJECT {
	    @Override public UnknownObject getUnknownObject(Object value) throws NullPointerException {
	    	return UnknownObject.getUnknownObject(value);
	    }
    }, 
	EXCEPTION {
		@Override public UnknownObject getUnknownObject(Object value) throws IllegalStateException {
			throw new IllegalStateException("TODO");
        }
    };

	public abstract UnknownObject getUnknownObject(Object value) throws IllegalStateException, NullPointerException;
		
}